
Any of you happen to read Isaac Asimov’s “Caves Of Steel.” Think it’ll translate well to the big-screen?
Deadline reports 20th Century Fox is developing an adaptation of Asimov’s 1954 tome, going so far as to assign Henry Hobson as director. X-MEN scribe Simon Kinsberg is producing under his Genre Films umbrella, with Hobson’s longtime collaborator John Scott 3 co-writing.
The Caves of Steel is a murder mystery that takes place 1,000 years in the future, on an overpopulated Earth where there is a phobia about robots. The title refers to giant city complexes that are necessary because Earth is so overpopulated. While robots are used for labor in outlying “spacer worlds” where the rich live on spacious parcels, the robots are outlawed on Earth. A Spacer Ambassador lobbying to loosen Earth’s anti-robot restrictions is found dead, his chest imploded by an energy blaster, and a detective is matched with a human-looking robot to solve the crime.
Note, CAVES OF STEEL will have to wait until Hobson and Scott 3 finish their coming-of-age zombie tale, MAGGIE. That film is currently in pre-production.













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